"Five meats" include garlic, garlic, onion, leek and Pleurotus eryngii. Buddhists are forbidden to eat meat. Meat refers to these spices and vegetables with special tastes.
Because eating these foods will leave a pungent smell in your mouth, and chanting or praying with a strange smell in your mouth is also a disrespect for the gods. And these five kinds of raw food are easy to make people angry, angry, angry.
The reason why monks can't eat meat
Monks can't eat meat, which originated from the rule of Xiao Yan in Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasties. Xiao Yan believed in Buddhism in his later years and devoted himself to the study of Buddhist theory. He is reading the Great Nirvana Sutra: "Stop killing". How can we stop killing? Then we have to start from the source, so it is stipulated that all monks can't eat meat and can only be vegetarian.
Not only that, he also stipulated that animals such as cattle and sheep could not be used for sacrifice, but only vegetables could be used. Later, ministers objected that flour could be kneaded into the shape of cattle and sheep instead. Of course, he doesn't eat meat himself, and he doesn't get close to women. It is because of his exemplary role that the rule that monks can't eat meat can be quickly implemented.